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National Competitiveness: a Dangerous Obsession
Highlighting a presentation by TJN’s Director John Christensen at the Max Planck Institute in December, and a chapter in a new book by two TJN authors, on the same theme. First, Max Planck, which published the details yesterday: TweetShare
Report: The treaties that cut taxes in poorest countries
New analysis: The treaties that cut taxes in some of the world’s poorest countries A guest blog by Lovisa Möller, ActionAid Today ActionAid releases battery of resources for academics, negotiators and activists that want to know more about the tax treaties that some of the world’s poorest countries have signed up to. This guest blog provides you with a round-up
Read the full article…OECD invites developing countries to join anti-tax avoidance plan, but only after the rules have been written
From the Financial Transparency Coalition, of which TJN is a member. OECD invites developing countries to join anti-tax avoidance plan, but only after the rules have been written The OECD’s plan to open the BEPS system to developing countries after it has already been designed highlights the need for a truly universal tax body Ahead of this week’s G20 Finance
Read the full article…Australia passes new information sharing provision
The Australian Senate has just passed the Bill that will tie Australia into the new global system of tax authorities sharing information with each other automatically. Unfortunately, this system, set up through the OECD, currently had not allowed full participation by developing countries. With help from international colleagues, TJN’s Andres Knobel and Joe Stead, we were able to get Labor
Read the full article…On the closure of the Argentinian think tank Cefid-AR
TJN laments the closure of the Centro de Economía y Finanzas para el Desarrollo de la Argentina” (Cefid-ar), an Argentine organisation heavily involved in research on illicit financial flows. Their work has shed light on capital flight from Argentina, estimating the figures of hidden money held offshore by Argentine residents. Their papers also focused and explained the role of enablers in
Read the full article…Big bills: let’s recall them all
In June 2014 we wrote an article about Big Bills: those high-value cash notes that are primarily of use to the world’s criminals (when was the last time you saw a 500 Euro note in the flesh, for instance?) The countries that print them can literally make a killing from so doing. Big bills have been in the news again
Read the full article…Corruption and the role of tax havens: workshop programme
For our workshop on tax havens and corruption at City University, London, 28th – 29th April 2016, our draft programme is here. Please click here to register, and follow the links. TweetShare
Call for articles: corporate tax reform, value theory, post-capitalism
We are calling for expressions of interest in contributing to an issue of Tax Justice Focus, dedicated to exploring the relationship between corporate tax reform, value theory, and the global transition to a post-capitalist, post-patriarchal, post-work society. An introductory essay is available here, setting out some of the linkages that we perceive to exist between these topics. Tax Justice Focus
Read the full article…New analysis: why Google is paying just 2% tax rate in the UK
The Daily Mirror newspaper in the UK is running a story entitled Google is paying even LESS tax than thought as UK deal is just 2%. This is based on a new TJN analysis, based not on current tax rules but on what Google might pay if the UK were to adopt a fairer tax system that we’ve advocated. We analysed Google’s tax settlement in
Read the full article…Illicit financial flows: the links to peace and security concerns
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, the global framework guiding policy until 2030) include a target to reduce illicit financial flows (IFF), under SDG 16 on peace and security. Our research director, Alex Cobham, has written an article for the European Centre for Development Policy Management tracing the linkages between illicit flows and security, and the basis for this important target
Read the full article…TJN in New York Review of Books: Missing Trillions
In the New York Review of Books: The Offshore Trillions John Christensen and James Henry, reply by Cass R. Sunstein MARCH 10, 2016 ISSUE In response to: Parking the Big Money from the January 14, 2016 issue To the Editors: TweetShare
Apply withholding taxes to tackle tax haven USA
We get a nice name check in an article in this week’s Economist, which goes after a subject we’ve been particularly exercised about for some time: Tax Haven USA. It cites one player in the spreading game: “It’s going nuts. Everyone is doing it or looking into it,” says a tax consultant, speaking of the American loophole.” TweetShare
Image of the day: IKEA
From the European Green Party: The full report finds that IKEA structured itself to dodge €1 billion in taxes over the last 6 years using onshore European tax havens. TweetShare
Remembering Rebecca Wilkins, champion for tax justice
The tax justice movement has lost a treasured colleague and friend. Rebecca Wilkins, of razor-sharp intellect and with a powerful gift for tax justice advocacy, passed away on Sunday 14 February 2016. While serving as legal counsel for Citizens for Tax Justice in Washington DC, Rebecca was diagnosed with cancer which went into remission following treatment. With her customary energy
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